Centrelines, edges, thickness and depths… Week 2 we took perspective totally out of the equation and sat directly opposite some lovely buildings along George St in order to focus on these aspects of drawing architecture. This stretch of the road has a lovely variety of buildings and I let everyone choose which one they wanted...
CONTINUE READINGIt is really great to see that some of the class went home and finished off their sketches… and don’t they look great! When sketching on location it is easy to start to beat yourself up about how wonky it is, how wrong the proportions or perspective is but if you keep going with the...
CONTINUE READINGTrying to choose which of my 40 odd travel sketchbooks I should take to my upcoming Travel Sketching Workshop on Saturday ….here they all are sorted into sets and including a few trip prep sketchbooks Sept 2007 3 weeks in Europe – 2 x moleskine Sept 2008 1 week in Tasmania – 1 x moleskine...
CONTINUE READINGWell, this week was the first in my Sketching Architecture course of 4 weeks, based in the Rocks, Sydney. I am running the class on a Thursday and a Friday morning. It was really fun to do the same class back to back like this and I am especially excited about the opportunity to put...
CONTINUE READINGJust going through some old sketchbooks I came across this sketch from my first serious sketching trip in 2009 – 3 weeks in the UK and 1 week in Paris with my great sketching buddy Esther. This is a rare black and white sketch – I don’t do many of them do I? The...
CONTINUE READINGI have been to Milsons Point many times to sketch but today’s visit – A USK Sydney event was unique in two ways. First the Luna Park face had a moustache – part of Movember. I think we agreed that the face actually looked nicer with a mo- less scary/ freaky. Also there was a...
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